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Charles W. Aiken collection, Date accessioned: 2005-01-19, bulk 1943-1945

 

Summary

Creator:
Aiken, Charles W., 1920-2006
Tanner, Stacy
Extent:
1 folders 1 folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Charles W. Aiken collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-04-0304

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Charles Aiken who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the European Theater of Operation during World War Two. This collection contains a newspaper clipping and an oral history transcript.

Biographical / historical:

Charles William Aiken was born on October 18, 1920 in Pelzer, South Carolina. He served in the 9th U.S. Air Force division, 644th Bomb Squadron, and 410th Bomb Group in the European Theater of Operation during World War II. He served in France and Germany and flew 38 missions over Austria, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. His squadron received the Presidential Unit Citation. He returned to the U.S. in 1945 and started the Aiken Brother's Automotive Supply and Aiken Chemical Company in Greenville, South Carolina. In 1959, he established Boys of America Home (later called Boys Home of the South) for boys who had been abandoned, neglected, abused, or orphaned. Charles Aiken passed away on March 4, 2006 at the age of 85. He is buried at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Greenville, South Carolina.

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Charles W. Aiken collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-04-0304

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA